dr oakenfold
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Hey Guys,
Rather than keeping a 5 year old thread going from somebody else, I'll start my own.
On Sunday I picked up a 1991 DS80. Overall general condition is average/poor.
How she is now...
The front headlight/numberplate/shroud are missing and have been replaced at some stage by the previous owner by a home fabricated aluminium plate, the wiring loom and indeed light fitting is still there just wrapped up. The plastics overall are very dull/scratched. Frame paint is quite rough, the original blue seems to have chunks missing that have flaked off over the years. The engine seems to start first or second kick but idles quite high but seems to run well enough. I think the suspension is quite soft and will need some work in the very near future, rims are quite rough and rear tyre is shot, will definitely need replacement very soon. Last but not least the seat has a lot of tears in it and definitely would have seen better days.
What I want her to be in the future (plans)...
Replace bodgy numberplate with white KLX110 Numberplate (Acerbis/UFO/etc...), remove lighting wiring.
Scrape back all the plastics to try and make them look neat, shiny and respectable again... (started tonight - lightly scraping front fender and found the colour initially was quite similar to the early-mid 80's DS's so I thought maybe they'd put a replacement on, though it flaked off and the fluro yellow underneath seemed to match better, not sure if I've just scraped too hard or the prev owner for some reason tried to paint it but matched the colour wrong??).
Replace whole exhaust system with FMF Fatty Pipe and Powercore 2 from JR80.
Replace all levers and possibly bars.
Replace rims/tyres.
Anything else I can think of or you guys suggest!
Rather than keeping a 5 year old thread going from somebody else, I'll start my own.
On Sunday I picked up a 1991 DS80. Overall general condition is average/poor.
How she is now...
The front headlight/numberplate/shroud are missing and have been replaced at some stage by the previous owner by a home fabricated aluminium plate, the wiring loom and indeed light fitting is still there just wrapped up. The plastics overall are very dull/scratched. Frame paint is quite rough, the original blue seems to have chunks missing that have flaked off over the years. The engine seems to start first or second kick but idles quite high but seems to run well enough. I think the suspension is quite soft and will need some work in the very near future, rims are quite rough and rear tyre is shot, will definitely need replacement very soon. Last but not least the seat has a lot of tears in it and definitely would have seen better days.
What I want her to be in the future (plans)...
Replace bodgy numberplate with white KLX110 Numberplate (Acerbis/UFO/etc...), remove lighting wiring.
Scrape back all the plastics to try and make them look neat, shiny and respectable again... (started tonight - lightly scraping front fender and found the colour initially was quite similar to the early-mid 80's DS's so I thought maybe they'd put a replacement on, though it flaked off and the fluro yellow underneath seemed to match better, not sure if I've just scraped too hard or the prev owner for some reason tried to paint it but matched the colour wrong??).
Replace whole exhaust system with FMF Fatty Pipe and Powercore 2 from JR80.
Replace all levers and possibly bars.
Replace rims/tyres.
Anything else I can think of or you guys suggest!
